Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 12th May 2005 08:02 UTC
Guest PC is an emulator of the x86 PC for the Mac OS X platform. We had a quick look at the product and we compared it to VirtualPC 6.1 that we also happened to have in-house.
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Not so zany... Mineral oil is used to cool the transformers on powerline poles outside. In the summer though, those things tend to not be able to cool enough.
I'd love to see them try it with a Prescott Pentium, that shit would boil.
Can someone please tell me, what the point of complete emulation is? If you need a platform to test, x86 is the cheapest. If you want to run software intended for another system, why not use something more like Virtual PC or VMWare? Those act more as simulators (Emulator imitates absolutely everything exactly as the original, where a simulator only does certain parts.)
Just because you can is great and all, but is not practical at all for someone who wants to run their old windows game or application. Bochs' usefulnes puzzles me quite a bit. While it's great that you can use any platform on any system, the overhead is so great, I can't imagine it being useful for more than taking screen shots.
Who knows, with dual core athlon 64's coming soon, maybe their performance will increase to the point where the Windows or Solaris migrator can make use of it.